It's still better than using Google / Edge, and it's basically the only good chromium alternative to the aforementioned browsers - reminder that stock chromium is not good.

Beside, you forgot the most important point: they further the chromium monopoly, which while the engine is open source its codebase is too big so it is basically controlled by google

Nitpicks:

Brave is an advertising company, that blocks everyone, but them. Forcing over people and companies into their system.

You can disable all the ads.

They’re heavily in the blockchain ecosystem, with their own worthless crypto.

Depending on whom you ask, it's a pro or a cons.

Brave, and its CEO is right-wing, lobbying against things like same-sex marriage.

See above.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

just let people do whatever they want, wtf is wrong with you people

How are they stopping them? They're not. But if you think that opposing equal rights for LGBT+ people is a good thing, then you're a massive piece of shit, and we're morally obligated to call you out for it, openly and repeatedly.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You “suggested” a browser change + mass downvote just for using brave, lol

if you think opposing […]

I don’t, but I don’t see how using a free browser, more so disabling the ads, you support that person or the idea

Like, I could see a point if you paid anything for it (see: Rowling) but for brave you pay nothing so

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Vivaldi is chromium based and far better than the alternatives imo. They're openly anti-big tech, push the fediverse, and will be forking starting at manifest v3.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is still closed source nonetheless, which is a bit of a gimmick since nobody sane enough could read through most of a browser codebase anyway.

According to this website it is less private than Brave by default, more or less like Firefox

That said, I didn't consider it before but I'll definitely check it out later

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

AFAIK it was tested with the default setting set to no tracker- and ad-blocker. When enabling all the built in measurements it looks a lot better.